Welcome to the Electric Car Weblog. In addition to links, news, and tips about electric cars and other forms of alternative transportation we are publishing an on-line diary of our current EV project. Started in August 2005 the chronicle follows the conversion of a gas powered Ford Probe into an Electric Car.
You will find articles organized by categories, along with recent comments, along the right hand column of the website. If you are just getting started with the idea of converting a gas car to electric be sure to check out Your First Electric Car .
Welcome and enjoy!
-Jerry
You will find articles organized by categories, along with recent comments, along the right hand column of the website. If you are just getting started with the idea of converting a gas car to electric be sure to check out Your First Electric Car .
Welcome and enjoy!
-Jerry
- Thinking of an in-dash battery system monitor or heads up display for your EV? Check out the Linux Car PC at $300.
- Mobilicity automated electric public transportation.
- Marine supplies, not a bad idea for sourcing EV parts: battery boxes & insulators, meters, switches, and fuse blocks.
- Danny’s G-Whiz electric car blog, Following the experience of an electric car owner in London. Well, actually a video blog. If you click a video and it doesn’t work try removing ”.nyud.net:8090” from the url. Here’s a video on range.
- Ryan Bohm’s 1984 Nissan electric car, good job!
- Gizmag article on the MIEV.
- High gas prices knocking down sales of SUVs, Pickups. Meanwhile the government creates a new mascot to promote conserving energy: Energy Hog.
- Electric Vehicle Battery Information.
- JB’s graphical battery monitor. You might remember an earlier post to his EV pusher design.
- Ford stops production of Excursion. 9,200lbs? As the locals would say, jeezum. As icing on this cake TH informs us that more bikes were sold than cars in the US this year.
- Long comment thread over at AutoBlog on whether hybrids save money. An equally lengthy and lively thread over at Slashdot. Ken Rockwell has a name for photographers who spend inordinate time with this sort of analysis paralysis: Equipment Measurbator.
- Overpotential – The world of fuel cells
- Factory Auto Manuals.
- Best idea this year, kid’s merry-go-round that powers a water pump. Next up, the micro-generators on Nintendo buttons!
- Welcoming fuel economy nerds everywhere, MetroMPG.
- Bay area gets a peek at fuel cell vehicles.
- Will increased gas prices really influence vehicle sales?
- Toyota parts online.
- A Wooley electric ride down in Virginia.
- GM “sees value in unprofitable hybrid vehicles…” Huh? The story is as fine an example of corporate speak as you will find.
- How can I get me some of them SLPB’s? (Superior Lithium Polymer Battery)
- Egg!. I always thought an intrepid engineer could do something like this with the new VW Beetle.
- More blogs about electric cars.
- Illegal veggie oil fuel use. Excuse moi, but your exhaust it smells quite suspicious.
- You can have my electric car when you pry my…oh, you have contracts and lawyers? Damn…
- Fuel cell cars in China
- E-Solex has a stylin’ new electric bike.
- Johnson Controls is opening a new four million dollar R&D laboratory to start work on next-generation hybrid batteries. From the Journal Sentinel article, “The lab will conduct tests on various designs of batteries made from lithium ion, including both cylindrical coils and other shapes, said Glenn Trischan, manager of materials and analytical support.”
- More news from GCC on the Lancer EV from Mitsubishi.
- Massachusetts is considering a bill to provide incentives for owners of hybrids and other alternative fuel vehicles (and hopefully EVs…c’mon New Hampshire).